Thursday, September 04, 2014

Kids Say the Darnedest Things When the Teacher Uses His Typical Analogies

This is a two-fer--same kid, same lesson, same concept.

ME: So
I'm going to explain this in terms of food...and you know, it seems
like the vast majority of my analogies involve either speaking, or
driving, or food. KID: Ha, that's true. But really, except for sleep, those are the most important things in life--talking, driving, and food. ME: True enough--and the sleeping part is covered in music by the use of rests.

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ME: So here's my philosophy on vibrato; A lot of people approach it as
if it's an addition to the sound, when to me, it's really a part of the
sound. So if you think of your sound as a pie...instead of treating
vibrato like it's the Cool Whip on top of the pie, it's really baked
into the pie. Does that make sense? KID: Yeah, it does...and now I want pie. ME: Yeah, I want pie, too.